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...Serena Laws Abstract This article examines the administrative structure of Chapter 7 bankruptcy to better understand the neoliberal welfare state. Studying the administrative workings of the bankruptcy system offers a clear example of the consequences that follow from delegating governance of state...

...Ron Hayduk; Emily Woo; Jazveline Marinez Estrada; Aaron Adrian Abstract Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a welcome democratic innovation because it promises to empower traditionally marginalized groups and create more equitable public spending. PB delegates public authority to neighborhood residents...

... pressures on national governments, and the tendency to delegate decisions away from control by elected politicians. These processes of “hyper-democracy” and “hyperdepoliticization” arguably create and re-enforce political tensions, magnifying a risk of central government “overload.” Through analyzing...

... in their district should be spent. Usually, these project ideas are around issues such as environment, education, public safety, transportation, housing, and parks. Residents who want to be more involved volunteer to be budget delegates in the next phase, which happens throughout the winter months. During...

... motifs from interviews with budget delegates (those who volunteered to vet project ideas and develop them into full ballot proposals) and allies, analyzing tensions between emerging models of managed participation and meaningful participation. I conclude by discussing implications for critical race...

..., however, was more than McGovernism. The senator from South Dakota had been an early critic of American involvement in Vietnam and had served as the primary spokesperson for party reform when he chaired the Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection-struck in the aftermath of the 1968 Democratic...

... positioned centrally in the conflict. 3 ? Most notably, the ICRC Delegate General in Africa, George Hoffmann, visited Nigeria on several occasions from 1965 to 1967. His preparatory activities consisted of analyzing the Nigerian context, establishing a foundation for cooperation with the conflicting parties...

... route to Cuba wIlen Mexican officials halted the Panther contingent. The Hilliard-led delegation attempted to follow-up on prior discussions with Cuban officials at the United Nations concerning the establishment of a Panther base of operations in Cuba. Later tllat year, however, Eldridge Cleaver fled...

... constitutional convention (hereinafter, "convention this time through the Article V process.2 Under Article V, two-thirds of the states (thirty-four of the fifty) could petition Congress to call such a convention for the purpose of proposing constitutional amendments. Those that were approved by the delegates...

... to become budget delegates, curating the proposals that will end up on the ballot. City Councilmembers' staff might also help budget delegates to vet out ineligible project ideas. Budget delegates work in teams, mostly organized by policy arena (and the relevant city agencies implementing these policies...

... team based at Queens College comprised largely of students and faculty who conducted interviews and administered surveys with PB participants, PB Budget Delegates (BO), staff and members of immigrant serving organizations, community organizations and civic groups, PB organizers, canvassers, and City...

... Doerfler, who were directly involved in the White Earth constitutional reform, give an account of the reform process and the complicated path to achieving constitutional consensus among White Earth constitutional convention delegates.16 The book, published in 2012, could not anticipate events of 2014-2016...

... him for the true signer of the Declaration. By right, he writes but he does not sign. Jefferson represents the representatives* who have delegated to him the task of drawing up [rediger] what they knew they wanted to say. He was not responsible for writing, in the productive or initiating sense...

... to delegation and representation done right, even at large scales. Dixon documents ongoing experiments with horizontalist forms of organization that include different degrees of representation and delegation; even asking if a form of anti-authoritarian hierarchy might be possible. Perhaps fears of losing my...

... into fundable projects as volunteer budget delegates, and ultimately cast votes for PB projects, with winning projects subsequently funded by the Council member. The process is governed by the PB in New York City (PBNYC) Rulebook, which lays out core goals of the PB process, a timeline, guidelines...

...: municipal assemblies, provincial assemblies, and the National Assembly. The 1992 Constitution further established a new and important sub-municipal body, the "people's councils," made up of municipal delegates from several adjoining districts and representatives of state agencies and enterprises operating...

... residents to try governing together, PBNYC instilled a new respect for and commitment to democracy. Expanded Political Imagination For many people, engaging in PBNYC opened up new possibilities for how government could work. As one delegate told Swaner, "The fact that this process works reasonably well...

... in France, as well as to small towns and rural districts: "The rural communes of every district were to administer their common affairs by an assembly of delegates in the central town, and these district assemblies were again to send deputies to the Na- INTRODUCTION TO MARCUSE & HABERMAS 15 tional...

... with anticipatory exhaustion more than excitement. Needing to self-manage even more of our lives than we already do does not feel like freedom to me. There is a liberating potential to delegation and representation done right, even at large scales. Dixon documents ongoing experiments with horizontalist forms...

... convention, despite some risks for the possible reward of a more democratic constitution. Democrats must be proactive, mobilized, and work for an equal footing with Republicans in control of state delegations going into such a convention. This is important because it is possible that each state will have one...